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Dorothea Viehmann (November 8, 1755 – November 17, 1816) was a German storyteller. Her stories were an important source for the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Most of Dorothea Viehmann's tales were published in the second volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales .
Born Katharina Dorothea Pierson (1755- 1815), Dorothea Viehmann, was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Isaac Pierson a tavern owner and as she grew up she was exposed to and learned lots of stories, folk tales, legends and myths from her fathers guests.
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Jun 27, 2010 · This roadhouse restaurant and Hütt brewery was once run by Dorothea Viehmann, who also fed fairy tales to the Brothers Grimm. An earnest, if hokey, story-telling reenactment takes place every...
Dorothea Viehmann was the daughter of an innkeeper at a country crossroads. She married a tailor at age twenty-two, bearing him seven children; three died young. When she met the Grimms, at almost sixty years old, Viehmann had five living daughters and hungry grandchildren.
Dorothea Viehmann contributed over 40 stories to the most famous collection of fairytales in existence. The idea that she was a poor woman with a humble background has since been debunked as a marketing strategy by the Brothers Grimm. The educated, cosmopolitan inn keeper’s daughter had Huguenot roots and was able to write and speak French.
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism. Jakob Norberg. In a magazine illustration based on a painting by Louis Katzenstein, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sit and listen to the folk tales told by Dorothea Viehmann, an inn-keeper’s daughter who knew a wealth of stories, many of which appeared in the Grimms’ famous collection ...
Another famed female behind the scenes of the original tales is Dorothea Viehmann. She was known to tell her stories over and over without changing a single word. She was responsible for more than forty tales that the Grimms eventually published, including Elsa and the Wild Swans and The Goose-Girl.
